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Transforming Through Imaginations Of Otherness, Laura Popplow
Transforming Through Imaginations Of Otherness, Laura Popplow
Pluriversal Design Conference Series
In this extended abstract I will draw on my experimental participatory design experiments and develop a proposal for a decentred design role in transformation processes: the imagination of Otherness. This concept is inspired by the political thinking of Deleuze and Guattari and offers an alternative to the dichotomy majority vs. minority and, as I propose, an alternative thinking model for political participation through design. It offers a way of thinking design as engaged in and across multiple world makings – and not to think design as an universal tool to engage marginalized minorities. I will outline my experience working with …
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 2: Impacts, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
Proceedings Of Drs2020 International Conference, Vol. 2: Impacts, Stella Boess, Ming Cheung, Rebecca Cain
DRS Conference Volumes
The overall theme for DRS2020 is Synergy – the coming together of people and disciplines in design research to create a positive impact. On the one hand, design research champions the uniqueness of disciplinary knowledge and creativity, yet on the other hand, the complex world we now live in demands a more synergistic approach to creativity and problem- solving whereby different mindsets, backgrounds and perspectives come together to realise transformative visions of the future. DRS2020 celebrates these emerging synergistic approaches to design research and seeks to explore their exciting possibilities for addressing multi-faceted problems, supporting participation, and transforming problematic situations …
Translational Aspects Of Basic Design Exercises, Sarah Klein, Michael Renner
Translational Aspects Of Basic Design Exercises, Sarah Klein, Michael Renner
Learn X Design Conference Series
Among other things, translation is defined as “carrying something across”. With this interpretation, derived from the etymological root of the term, translation is not exclusively bound to the linguistic context. Therefore, a comparison between aspects of translation theory and the transfer of meaning in basic design exercises can be justified. Understanding linguistic translation as an act of cultural negotiation, raises the question to what extent basic design exercises reach across cultural constraints in transferring experience between design teachers and students. With other words: are basic design exercises transferring universal design principles or are they culturally determined the way language is? …
How Can We Come To Care In And Through Design?, Li Jönsson, Ann Light, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl, Mathilda Tham
How Can We Come To Care In And Through Design?, Li Jönsson, Ann Light, Kristina Lindström, Åsa Ståhl, Mathilda Tham
Nordes Conference Series
On a generic level, caring can be described as "everything that we do to maintain, continue, and repair our 'world' so that we can live in it as well as possible" (Fisher and Tronto, 1990). This paper asks how we as design researchers in Scandinavia come to care, for our world and more specifically for the local NORDES community. We do this by describing how we have maintained, continued and added (as a practice of repair) in relation to the most recent NORDES summer school (2018). The summer school invited students to work with tensions between despair, in a site …
Research Experiences Beyond The Comfort Zone, Juan Sanin
Research Experiences Beyond The Comfort Zone, Juan Sanin
Nordes Conference Series
The intersection between design and care is shaping new design fields that are both promising and challenging. Design for healthcare is one of these fields: it brings opportunities for improving people’s experience of care through design research, but it takes designers out of their comfort zone. Scholars have reported success doing design for healthcare, but not much has been said about challenges, failures or confrontations found in this field. This paper argues that we should care more about discomforting aspects of design research to get a better understanding of what designing together involves. It presents a case of care (in)action …
Three Ecologies Diffracted: Intersectionality For Ecological Caring, Martín Ávila
Three Ecologies Diffracted: Intersectionality For Ecological Caring, Martín Ávila
Nordes Conference Series
This essay commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of Félix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies. It does so by proposing a ‘diffractive’ reading of the book, suggesting latent potential in each of the overlapping “ecologies” that conformed the ecosophy sketched by Guattari. There are mainly two aspects of The Three Ecologies addressed in this essay. Firstly, the understanding of the general frame of the interrelation of the three ecologies as an “intersectional” approach. Secondly, the understanding of this form of intersectionality as a possible platform to acknowledge other-than human ‘intersections’. Through the essay I exemplify with one of my own …
Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen
Design For Profit Or Prosper, Else Skjold, Frederik Larsen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Over the past decade, it has become increasingly popular to position design as an excellent tool for companies and organisations to foster innovation and growth. As an adaptable practice design can be applied to serve many ends, and in the field of sustainable transition design has the potential to create new solutions due to its capacity to ‘reframe’ large-scale problems of a ‘wicked’ nature. However, as we will argue in this paper, the innovation and change promoted through design risks becoming merely a vehicle for promoting the values associated with 20th century neoliberal capitalism. We therefore want to question the …
The Beauty Of Making Hot Chocolate - An Enquiry On Designing For Everyday Rituals, Pierre Lévy
The Beauty Of Making Hot Chocolate - An Enquiry On Designing For Everyday Rituals, Pierre Lévy
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The everyday is often mentioned in design, yet hardly inquired. The everyday is about what is banal, infraordinary, not memorable, as well as about the force that makes things habitual, endotic. In the research encompassing this paper, we question the everyday and explore opportunities to enchant it by design. This paper focuses more specifically on the design of everyday rituals, and aims to propose a descriptive framework to ‘read’ and compose such rituals. The elaboration of the framework is done based on a case study: the making of a hot chocolate in the morning. Through an autoethnographical approach, the main …
Have I Got A Proposition For You: Developing The Capability For Compelling Arguments Through Rhetorical Practice Inthe Design Studio, Veronika Kelly, Myra Thiessen
Have I Got A Proposition For You: Developing The Capability For Compelling Arguments Through Rhetorical Practice Inthe Design Studio, Veronika Kelly, Myra Thiessen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Designers draw implicitly on rhetorical modes of appeal (ethos, pathos, logos) in the way they talk about their work in terms of its strategic, social, and cultural impact. Rhetorical practice on its own, however, may not align with an ethical position. Yet design’s increasing emphasis on values, behaviours, and social action indicates a practice that requires expertise in formulating compelling design propositions that inspire people to act. This has significance for design education in relation to developing learners’ capabilities in making more compelling arguments for their design work that emphasise the social and ethical impact of design in use. This …
How Consumers Read The Visual Presentation Of Food Packaging Design In A Cross-Cultural Context: A Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Linna Hu, Hua Dong
How Consumers Read The Visual Presentation Of Food Packaging Design In A Cross-Cultural Context: A Conceptual Framework And Case Study, Linna Hu, Hua Dong
DRS Biennial Conference Series
How consumers understand products is based largely on their communication with the products, which is significantly influenced not only by the consumers’ cultural background but also by the cultural context where the communication happens. This paper viewed consumers as readers who play active roles in the dynamic structure of communication and discussed how cultural factors affect consumers in reading design. Companies are now striving to create visually desirable products that can be universally recognized in the increasingly global marketplace. ‘Lao Gan Ma’, the most popular chilli sauce brand in China, was introduced as a case study in this paper. In …
Critique And Post-Critique In Social Innovation Projects: Between Speculation And Realism, Sissel Olander
Critique And Post-Critique In Social Innovation Projects: Between Speculation And Realism, Sissel Olander
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper discusses notions of critique, post-critique, speculation and realism, as it reflects through a practice-based design research project, which worked as part of a bigger Danish public innovation program with the involvement of citizens in the design of a new library and cultural house under construction. Specifically, the paper sets out to challenge what seems to be a dichotomous “either-or” thinking in the descriptions and analyses of practice-based design research projects. Accounts of design research that operates in overlapping landscapes of academia, public sector and business are often depicted as too solution-orientated and therefore not reflexive, too engaged and …
Conversation: The Snug: A Conversation About Design Research. Imagining, Embodying, Assembling, Eva Verhoeven, Paul Bailey, John Fass, Jaron Rowan, Marta Camps Banque
Conversation: The Snug: A Conversation About Design Research. Imagining, Embodying, Assembling, Eva Verhoeven, Paul Bailey, John Fass, Jaron Rowan, Marta Camps Banque
DRS Biennial Conference Series
No abstract provided.
Conversation: ‘Conversing With Materials’ -How Do We Converse With Materials And Other Beings To Co-Design Equitably?, Jane Norris, Elvin Karana, Nithikul Nimkulrat
Conversation: ‘Conversing With Materials’ -How Do We Converse With Materials And Other Beings To Co-Design Equitably?, Jane Norris, Elvin Karana, Nithikul Nimkulrat
DRS Biennial Conference Series
No abstract provided.
Conversation: Lexicon Live: Performing The Discursive Space Around Keywords, Liesbeth Fit, Fortuyn Irene Droogleever, Paolo Patelli, Yoko Akama, Donato Ricci
Conversation: Lexicon Live: Performing The Discursive Space Around Keywords, Liesbeth Fit, Fortuyn Irene Droogleever, Paolo Patelli, Yoko Akama, Donato Ricci
DRS Biennial Conference Series
No abstract provided.
Conversation: Transforming Design: Indigeneity And Mestizaje In Latin America, Gabriela Hernández, Maria Rogal, Raúl Sánchez
Conversation: Transforming Design: Indigeneity And Mestizaje In Latin America, Gabriela Hernández, Maria Rogal, Raúl Sánchez
DRS Biennial Conference Series
No abstract provided.
Soma-Wearable Design: Integrating Somaesthetic Practice And Fashion Design For Somatic Wellbeing, Heekyoung Jung, Anna Ståhl
Soma-Wearable Design: Integrating Somaesthetic Practice And Fashion Design For Somatic Wellbeing, Heekyoung Jung, Anna Ståhl
DRS Biennial Conference Series
With advanced technologies and raised expectations for the quality of life, research and design attempts are increasing to promote wellbeing. While data-based reflective practice and behaviour change have been a main strategy in supporting technology- mediated wellbeing, we bring the perspectives of somaesthetic practice and fashion design to complement this research scene. Assuming that body consciousness could positively influence self-perception, presentation and performance through clothing, we propose soma-wearable design as an alternative approach to explore qualities that elaborate and promote somatic wellbeing. First, we conceptualize constructive links between design for reflection, somaesthetic practice, and style-fashion-dress; and re- interpret the core …
The Road To Happiness Is Paved With Playful Intentions, Jesper Legaard
The Road To Happiness Is Paved With Playful Intentions, Jesper Legaard
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Through exploring the relation between designing for happiness and designing for play experiences, the paper proposes key elements that constitute meaningful play experiences. The paper proposes that designing for playfulness may also lead to more meaningfully engaging experiences. Meaningful experiences emerge when the activities of the experience comply with the interests, passions and goals of the person having the experience, by which meaningfulness is naturally linked to intrinsic motivation. This is true also for play activities, which are typically defined by e.g. being voluntary activities. Building on conditions for meaningful experiences, the author addresses the element of playfulness as a …
Critical Placemaking: Towards A More Critical Engagement For Participatory Design In The Urban Environment, Tania Allen, Sara Glee Queen
Critical Placemaking: Towards A More Critical Engagement For Participatory Design In The Urban Environment, Tania Allen, Sara Glee Queen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper offers a framework for design research that invites civic participation in the construction of place, and aims to reignite the conversation Nigel Cross raised in 1971 as a part of the first proceeding of the Design Research Society, calling on a need for user participation and intentional boundary-crossing. The need for new methods is no more evident than in the field of urban design. As global populations are migrating at unprecedented rates, new and different ideas and cultures are integrating and colliding at a high velocity. Additionally, the digital tools we use to understand and navigate urban environments …
The Critical Design Exhibition: An Epistemic Space, Gillian Russell
The Critical Design Exhibition: An Epistemic Space, Gillian Russell
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The overall objective of this paper is to position the critical design exhibition as a context of discovery – a material space for thinking – distancing itself from the more didactic forms of exhibitions that still dominate practice today, and to pose ways to establish a far more dynamic and open relation between critical design and its staging. What will follow will be an examination of critical design as a form of research which seeks not so much to make explicit knowledge production but rather to provide a space for thinking. Consequently critical design is an open undertaking centred on …
Culture-Orientated Food Design For Social Issue, Yinman Guo, Tie Ji
Culture-Orientated Food Design For Social Issue, Yinman Guo, Tie Ji
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Cultural globalization threatens cultural diversity, especially for minority cultures and ethnic cultures. In response to the fading of cultural identities, there is rare literature discussing how design can contribute. Through integrating the cultural significance of food and food design methods, the paper proposes a culture-oriented food design model to strengthen cultural identity and create connections. A case study of designing a delivery service of Chinese food for the second-generation Chinese Americans is presented to solve their identity crisis through the process of defining user, content, experience, and design around culture respectively. Feedback from target users shows that the cultural meaning …
Do Professionals With Different Backgrounds Use Distinct Thinking Styles When Designing A Product?, Roberta Rech Mandelli, Valentina Marques Rosa, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto, Priscila Brust-Renck, Leandro Miletto Tonetto
Do Professionals With Different Backgrounds Use Distinct Thinking Styles When Designing A Product?, Roberta Rech Mandelli, Valentina Marques Rosa, Flavio Sanson Fogliatto, Priscila Brust-Renck, Leandro Miletto Tonetto
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A thinking style refers to a person’s preferred way to process and react to different situations. Since they have an impact on performance and should be viewed as fluid, some environments may benefit from specific thinking styles to optimize results and the use of resources. In this paper we present a study indicating which thinking style professionals with different backgrounds (engineers, designers, and architects) favour when designing a product. For that, we used the Concept Design Thinking Style Inventory (CD-TSI). Results showed that engineers favour the conditional thinking style (accepting opinions from others without questioning them), designers prefer the exploring …
Challenges In Barbadian Design Education – When Graphic Design & Product Development Collide, Shelly Mayers
Challenges In Barbadian Design Education – When Graphic Design & Product Development Collide, Shelly Mayers
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The Barbados Community College’s BFA Programme in Graphic Design has been in existence for over 20 years. The year 2009 marked a shift in design application, with pockets of students using graphic design as a catalyst to develop products that are potentially marketable. The current economic climate has made it harder for students to be employed in agencies and studios. One would anticipate that they would follow through in creating new spaces for themselves as designers, i.e. developing products as viable sources of income in a struggling economy, but sadly most do not. Through an exploration of case studies ranging …
Prototyping Multispecies Environments: Attentiveness And Friction As Modes Of Knowing, Martin Tironi, Pablo Hermansen
Prototyping Multispecies Environments: Attentiveness And Friction As Modes Of Knowing, Martin Tironi, Pablo Hermansen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This article is based on the process of prototyping an environmental enrichment device for gibbons at the National Zoo of Chile (ZNdC). We analyse the capacity of prototyping to make the ontological qualities of the entities involved perceptible while precipitating forms of care and connection. We will show that the very process of prototyping favours the mise en scène of an interspecies environment, sheltering the delicate unfolding of an ‘us’ that is based on mutual care and attention. We argue that this unfolding transforms prototyping into a cosmopolitical place for exercising modes of correspondence between humans, non-humans and environments. In …
Service Design And Activity Theory For The Meta-Design Of Collaborative Design Processes, Massimo Menichinelli
Service Design And Activity Theory For The Meta-Design Of Collaborative Design Processes, Massimo Menichinelli
ServDes Conference Series
This paper explores how the approach, logic and tools of Service Design could support the development of a digital platform that enable the collaborative design of open and collaborative design processes. By integrating Service Design, Activity Theory and Meta-Design, such platform could foster community building and management providing concepts and visualizations that help users in the conscious and reflexive design of the activities constituting their community-based collaborative design processes. How could Service Design enable the meta-design of collaborative design processes on digital platforms? This paper elaborates a proposal for integrating Service Design concepts and tools into a meta-design digital platform …
The Future Of Visual Communication Design Is Almost Invisible Or Why Skills In Visual Aesthetics Are Important To Service Design, Mark Roxburgh, Jemimah Irvin
The Future Of Visual Communication Design Is Almost Invisible Or Why Skills In Visual Aesthetics Are Important To Service Design, Mark Roxburgh, Jemimah Irvin
ServDes Conference Series
Over the past 20 years there has been an increase in post-secondary visual communication education in Australia while the growth of the industry itself has been low, meaning an increasing number of graduates compete for a limited pool of jobs . The use of visualisation in human centered and service design approaches provides alternative employment opportunities for these graduates. This paper presents a case study of a visual communication honors research project that is indicative of those opportunities and the potential benefits of having highly skilled visual practitioners involved in human centered and service design processes. Furthermore, we argue that …
Dance Of Designing: Rethinking Position, Relation And Movement In Service Design, Shana Agid, Yoko Akama
Dance Of Designing: Rethinking Position, Relation And Movement In Service Design, Shana Agid, Yoko Akama
ServDes Conference Series
Despite the recognised need for service design (SD) to understand the complexity in which it intervenes, we are concerned with its desire to fix dynamic configurations through a dominant instrumentalized worldview. We critique the journey map – an iconic method in SD – as one illustration of this fixing tendency in order to highlight how nuanced details are sometimes designed out and argue why such omission is ethical and political. In contrast, following feminist theory, we ground our accounts of practice to argue that service ecologies are situated and continually emergent, constituted by the changing configuration of various things. Instead …
Navigating The Sociocultural Landscape In Service Design, Laura Santamaria, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Tracy Ross
Navigating The Sociocultural Landscape In Service Design, Laura Santamaria, Carolina Escobar-Tello, Tracy Ross
ServDes Conference Series
This paper reports on a case study where a service design approach was implemented to develop strategies for scaling-up a social enterprise, building on design as a meaning-making and framing practice. Context deconstruction methods drawn from semiotics and cultural studies were introduced during user research. These methods facilitated exploration of global and local sociocultural trends, mapping business category themes and competing offers, and identifying potential user groups’ cultural codes – i.e. expectations, aspirations and socio-symbolic aspects of consumption that influence users’ value perception. Subsequently, insights translated into strategies and guidelines for reframing the service value proposition and touchpoints to appeal …
Uncovering Digital Craft Methods In The Design Of Enhanced Objects And Surfaces, Lucie Hernandez
Uncovering Digital Craft Methods In The Design Of Enhanced Objects And Surfaces, Lucie Hernandez
Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG) Conference Series
This paper focuses on the growing field of creative practice that aligns physical and digital spaces, processes and experiences. This field recognises the potential for heightening human expression and sensibility through practice that engages multi-disciplinary, hybrid approaches taken from computing, engineering, e-textiles, craft and design. Craft practice is explored within a broader field of making, which in this research, is applied to the design of responsive objects in a move towards more nuanced, empathetic interfaces. The situated body is central to comprehending the nature of experience, as we perceive the world through multiple sensory modes. Key commentators have framed an …
Technologies Of Division: Everyday Bordering, Silvia Mata-Marin, Dan Lockton
Technologies Of Division: Everyday Bordering, Silvia Mata-Marin, Dan Lockton
Nordes Conference Series
This paper explores how border thinking allows us to situate sociotechnical systems in everyday social processes as designed ‘bordering’ systems, regulating access and exerting control by embodying politics of difference in the context of everyday life for migrants in the United States. Through a discussion of everyday designed artifacts—credit cards and drivers’ licenses—the paper examines the tensions created in a process of acculturation, and calls for designers to attend to the ways in which designed artifacts embody larger political structures, becoming actors in the politics of inclusion/exclusion.
The Ability To Make A Difference In Participatory Design Projects, Aditya Pawar
The Ability To Make A Difference In Participatory Design Projects, Aditya Pawar
Nordes Conference Series
The case study presented here is an intensive nineday community participation project in a Swiss town, aimed at fostering community food production. The approach to participatory design presented here seeks to emphasize the in-situ improvisatory ‘doing' of collaborative activities. Using notions such as diffusing, reifying and catalyzing the study describes the iterative movement of the project that is bound up in material arrangements and social relations. Through a reflection in action approach, the author unpacks how the designer's agency is understood through social interactions and acts of summarizing, materialization and translation. The paper concludes by discussing power and agency, both …